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Letters From Rome: Italy’s Russiagate-Wannabe
Back in the Eternal City after three years, and there is another political scandal on the horizon. Or at least the local media machine (every bit as bad as its U.S. equivalent) would have us believe there was. The target: Matteo Salvini, Italyās famously Euroskeptic interior minister. The accusation: corrupt dealings between his Lega party...
On Vouching
Since Laurence M. Vance used his review (āWhy Johnny Shouldnāt Vouch,ā July) of two new books on parental choice in education to repeat his stale objections to school vouchers, I wish to correct his mistakes and bring readers up to date on the voucher debate. Vance conveys three reservations he has about vouchers, which will...
The Politics of Rape
When an acquitted William Kennedy Smith emerged from the Florida courtroom last December declaring his faith in the system, a viewer could only query, “Why?” There stood a young man who was indicted for rape and forced to spend over one million dollars defending himself on the basis of the word of one person, the...
Is Rob Henderson āTroubledā or Blessed?
Rob Hendersonās memoir āTroubledā demonstrates why itās not enough for a writer to dwell on the problems that afflict a person and his community. Henderson should now turn his focus to what makes him, and his circle, blessed.
Adamsā Federalism
In 1786, John Adams wrote in his diary that a friend, ālamenting the differences of character between Virginia and New England,ā welcomed from Adams a recipe for a Chesapeake makeover: āI recommended to him town meetings, training days, town schools, and ministersā; these āare the scenes where New England men were formed.āĀ Because Adams started...
Syrian Showdown: Trump vs. the Generals
With ISIS on the run in Syria, President Trump this week declared that he intends to make good on his promise to bring the troops home. “I want to get out. I want to bring our troops back home,” said the president. We’ve gotten “nothing out of the $7 trillion (spent) in the Middle East...
Hobson’s Choices
This slender volumeāit embodies the 33 rd of the Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lecturesāis most welcome. The topic is a matter of broad interest, and the author knows his stuff. As scholar and critic, professor and editor, Fred Hobson is a respected authority, one to be alertly attended. He doesn’t let us down. He wants...
āScratch One Flattopā
It was Americaās first naval battle of World War II, Japanās first loss at sea in the war, the battle that saved Australia from a Japanese invasion, the greatest naval battle in Australian waters, the first carrier battle, and the first battle in which the opposing fleets never came within sight of each other or...
Stand My Ground
Purchasing a house in a city with double-digit unemployment and some of the highest property taxes in the country may well be a definition of insanity.Ā Buying such a house on foreclosure, unable to make the purchase contingent on the sale of your current home, undoubtedly is. Yet here we areāconsidering taking that leap into...
Reaping the Whirlwind
Ā Anti-American protests have continued to spread across the globe, though the fires of passion are predictably burning out. Ā People do have jobs to go to, children to feed, lives to lead. Even violence-prone jihadists can’t always be breaching embassies or murdering diplomats. Note:Ā This is a slightly improved version of my latest Daily Mail column....
Debate on Capitol Hill
The United Nations has generated more debate on Capitol Hill in recent months than at any time since its birth 52 years ago. Several factors account for this recent strain in relations, including the end of the Cold War and increased scrutiny by a Republican-controlled Congress. However, the excesses and missteps of the United Nations...
The Tragedy of Richard Nixon
Pat Buchananās new biographyĀ of Richard Nixonās presidency is the first volume anyone looking at that tumultuous time should turn to.Ā Having served as Nixonās researcher and speechwriter starting in 1966, Buchanan, not yet 30, followed the victorious President into the White House in 1969. InĀ Nixonās White House Wars, Buchanan makes it clear that Nixonās tragic...
The Geology of Time
Atop the final ridge rising to the south rim, Tom Hart stopped the truck and sat behind the wheel, gazing over into the meandering trench stretching from west to east and across it to the line of blue mountains over 40 miles away.Ā It had been his first sight of the canyon when his family...
Dominion Mosque
If the definition of a liberal is a person who wonāt take his own side in a fight, Adam Ebbin and Kaye Kory, Democrats who represent Virginiaās 49th and 38th districts in the commonwealthās House of Delegates, should have their pictures next to the word in Websterās. Ebbin, a homosexual Jew, invited Johari Abdul-Malik, a...
The Cabal Strikes Back
Ever since the exposure in the mainstream media last year of the neoconservatives as a fifth column that engineered the present boondoggle in Iraq, dragged the United States into a foreign war for the transparent benefit of Israel, and concocted what are now known to have been lies about Iraqās āweapons of mass destructionā and...
Gillette Meets Dick the Butcher
Everyoneās rather angry nowadays.Ā Women, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, college students, college professors, Hollywood stars, Democratic politiciansāyou name them, theyāre upset.Ā The Donald seems finally to have united the United States.Ā Everybody hates Trump and, of course, men.Ā Toxic masculinity has replaced the evil Nazis and their goose-step, and Trump the loathsome...
American Gestapo
Joseph Bolanosā reputation as a pillar of New York Cityās Upper West Side community was shredded in February when FBI agents and heavily armed police raided his motherās apartment where Bolanos was spending the night. They handcuffed him while other agents battered down the door to his home and kept him in the street in...
Soundtrack to the New Old South
[A look at the Drive-By Truckers] Sometime in the early 1990ās, while attending an event called a āsong swapā in Athens, Georgia, I met an extraordinarily gifted songwriter named Patterson Hood. The swap itself was essentially a ...
Missing the Main Story
In 1946, the U.S. intelligence community published a series of studies on the current and future dangers threatening global peace, and among these was a surprisingly detailed essay entitled, āIslam: A Threat to World Stability.ā Those remarks obviously carry a special weight in light of subsequent decades. I am not the first person to discuss...
Disasters Averted
Last nightās divine surprise is important more for the many bad things that will not happen than for the good ones that may happen. That Donald Trump won in spite of his many blunders, and in spite of the mainstream media machine acting as an integral part of Hillary Clintonās campaign, indicates the magnitude of...
Overlooking Mass KillersāIf Theyāre on the Totalitarian Left
Imgard Furchner, a 96-year-old resident of a special care facility in Germany, is being investigated as a war criminal. She will appear in court in a wheelchair, which is now her customary way of moving about, the Swiss magazine DieWeltwoche reports. She did try to escape from her accusers in a taxi but was apprehended...
Stupid Is Not Enough
When Donald Trump defeated Ted Cruz in the 2016 Indiana presidential primary, the race for the Republican Party nomination was over.Ā The prize was Trumpās.Ā The next day, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he was not yet ready to endorse the standard-bearer.Ā George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Jeb Bush quickly followed suit,...
The Rhetoric of Fashion
āFor his birthday his wife gave him a riding crop that cost 100 francs,ā a writer called Arnold Ruge complained of his newly married friend, a fellow German Ć©migrĆ© in Paris, and the poor fool does not ride, nor has he a horse.Ā Everything he sees he wants to have, a carriage, smart clothes, a...
Nixon’s Revenge: The Fall of the Adversary Press
Saturday’s White House Correspondents Association dinner exposed anew how far from Middle America our elite media reside. At the dinner, the electricity was gone, the glamor and glitz were gone. Neither the president nor his White House staff came. Even Press Secretary Sean Spicer begged off. The idea of a convivial evening together of our...
The Managerial Mob
From the October 1998 issue of Chronicles. “Michael, we’re bigger than U.S. Steel,” boasts gangland mastermind Hyman Roth to his (quite temporary) partner, Michael Corleone, in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, Part II. Hyman, however, was not the first to say it, and those familiar with the life history and achievements of the gentleman on...
John William Corrington, R.I.P.
John William Corrington’s early death ended the career of a distinguished and prolific literary figure. His first book appeared in 1961; it was followed by three other books of poetry, numerous novels, and four of the best short story collections of our times. He had stories selected for the Best American Short Stories in 1972,...
Hayduke Lives!
It is difficult sometimes to remember the days before September 11, 2001, when George W. Bush was a decidedly ordinary President whose anemic victory the previous fall had required a monthās worth of recounts and court decisions to confirm.Ā After the terrorist attacks, President Bushās approval rating soared, and his administration sought and received vast...
Look to the Altar, Not the Throne
The Supreme Court granted injunctive relief to houses of worship previously closed under New York Gov. Andrew Cuomoās restrictions on public gatherings. Justice Neil Gorsuch chided the governor for his ācolor-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops but shutter churches, synagogues and mosques.ā This is a tremendous step toward the restoration of order...
The Mad Farmer
The Luddite tradition that Wendell Berry hails so eloquently is the same, he insists, that caused the men of 76 to break from Britain. It is the Jeffersonian Democratic tradition that was partly destroyed (in both the North and the South) by the War Between the States, and almost wholly wrecked by the one-world fantasies...
Gnostic Newt
The hallmark of the sophomoric mind is that it knows the sorts of things that adult minds do but has not yet figured out how to do them. Bright undergraduates who solemnly inform their professors that they plan to write term papers applying what they have read about the latest fads of pop psychology to...
How Can Bush Bring Freedom to Iraq When He Brings Tyranny to America?
The Washington, D.C., think-tank The American Enterprise Institute camouflages its purpose with its name. There is nothing American about AEI, and the organizationās enterprise is fomenting war in the Middle East against Israelās enemies. Its real name should be The Likud Center for Middle East War. AEI has the largest collection of warmongers in America....
The Global Trace-and-Track Regime
The Biden administration’s vaccine passport scheme is just the teeny-tiny tip of a massive privacy invasion iceberg. A year ago this week, I began chronicling the worldwide weaponization of COVID-19 by big government and big business to trace and track the health data of untold hundreds of millions of human beings. Let’s review. In March...
Beyond Democracy
Prophets like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn understood that the 20th century was the substance of which prophecy is made.Ā Its history is a poetic saga, the poetry written in Godās own fierce verse.Ā The first decade of the 21st century was inclined to look back at its immediate centennial predecessor with a degree of self-satisfaction amounting to...
Therapeutic Totalitarianism
Paul Gottfried has spent a useful career shining his lantern of truth into the dark corners of Americaās political consciousness.Ā In After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State (1999), he examined the rise and consolidation of centralized managerial regimes across the Western world.Ā Gottfried documented what should have been obvious to every educated man:...
The Worst Decision
Law professors like to debate among themselves which of the U.S. Supreme Courtās many opinions is the very worst.Ā There has been a general consensus that the most loathsome is the one in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), in which the Court decided that the right to hold slaves in the territories was a āfundamental...
On the Hundredth Meridian
Come on now, Chilton, you can fool the readers of Chronicles who have never cut the scent pads off a mule deer buck or pried the “ivories” out of an elk’s jaw, but for those of us who have, your hyperbole, especially in your February column (“Hunters and Gatherers“), sometimes reaches the point where a...
Goodbye, George
An American president can wreck his country and blow up the world, but he cannot recreate either of them. āChilton Williamson A recent book on the George W. Bush presidency is called A Tragic Legacy. But tragedy suggests the fall of something high and noble. There never ...
Five Modest Swamp-Draining Proposals
How many times will naive voters fall for the old āwhen elected I will shrink the federal governmentā lie? If our Solipsist-in-Chief canāt ādrain the swamp,ā you can bet your last VHS Jazzercise tape that myriad new laws, middle-class tax cuts, and feeble protests will never stem the federal Leviathanās metastasis. With that reality in...
Quo Vadis, Mother Russia?
The advance of U.S.-led NATO is shrinking the buffer of neutral territories that were once Russian lands. But if the West continues to isolate Russia, there is only one direction it can go: to the East, and China.
Why Has the Land Turned on Me?
I have showered more love on this old 1940ās farmhouse than on any person living.Ā Certainly, Iāve spent more money on it than I care to count.Ā But more than the house itselfāan undistinguished structure made interesting only by my renovationāitās the land I fell in love with. The way my foot sinks into the...
A Second Look
In his review of Mark R. Levinās The Liberty Amendments (āImpractical Solutions, February), William J. Quirk emphasizes the novelty of an Article V convention, calling it āa constitutional-amendment process that has never been used beforeā and criticizing Mr. Levin for proposing that, āfor the first time,ā we use an Article V convention to amend the...
The Latest Camp of the Saints
Total strangers hug one another. People dance for joy in the streets. Tears pour down their faces. It is Germany, November 1989. The Berlin Wall has fallen and for the first time in decades people can move freely back and forth in Germany’s old capital. A people feels its solidarity, in the truest sense of...
What We Are Reading: September 2021
Northwestern Europeās early development owes much to the Carolingian dynasty, which led Germanic society into Christendom from the dead end of paganism. It set the stage for the lush flowering of knightly culture, with its ideals of chivalry, courtesy, and courtly love, which established the Western habit of mind. This Western ethos is rooted in...
Vol. 2 No. 6 June 2000
A decade after the ostensible end of the Cold War, we are witnessing the emergence of anti-Americanism in places where it had never existed beforeānotably, among the peoples of Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Bill Clinton’s misnamed “national security team” have succeeded where Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev failed. “If...
The Grand Illusion
Twenty years from now, when future historians look back at the 1980’s, some of them may be tempted to call it the “Decade of the Grand Illusion.” For not since les annĆ©es folles, as the French still call the giddy 1920’s, has the Western world lived in such a state of deceptive euphoria. The besetting...
Teddy Rebel in Portland
The political establishment in California has become self-admittedly secessionist in recent months, rebelling specifically against federal immigration policy and more broadly by raising the possibility of leaving a backward and reactionary country that does not share its culture and its politics.Ā The secessionist spirit is spreading on the left and in leftist portions of the...
They Are Coming, Father Abraham
Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush says that immigration “is not a problem to be solved. It is the sign of a successful nation. New Americans are to be welcomed as neighbors and not to be feared as strangers.” In 1996, the Republican platform advocated an end to granting automatic citizenship to children born to...
First Things First
Once, in a Paris bookstore, biographer Leon Edel heard Ernest Hemingway’s take on T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom. “Camels!” bellowed Papa. “Camels!” In his new book, Thomas McGuane has given us Horses! Horses! There is a theory that the artist who invests too much intellectual capital in the pursuit of sport or hobbies cheapens,...
The Future of Russia and the West: A Conversation with Elena Chudinova, Part II
[A Continuation of the interview between Srdja and Elena] ST: One worrying aspect is that Russia has allowed almost uncontrollable immigration from former Soviet Central Asia and this may, in view, of the low birth rates of the Orthodox Russians, change the demographic picture of the country in only a few decades. EC: I always...